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The next year, the Petroleum Revenue Management Act divided the wealth among consumption, investment, and offshore savings, as recommended by economists around the world (including us).
Digital technology and capital have eliminated middle-income jobs or moved them offshore, generating an excess supply of labor that has contributed to income stagnation precisely in that range.
The Japanese are like mice on a treadmill: they are moving production offshore to low labor cost locations in the United States, in Thailand, in Indonesia,wherever entry and even mid-level products (measured in terms of required labor skills) can be produced more profitably than in high wage Japan.
But even as production moves offshore, wave after wave of Yen appreciation hits the manufacturing sector and requires yet more efforts and adjustment.
The mice will stay on the treadmill and Japan, Inc will go offshore.
Japan's hasty move offshore creates new Asian competitors virtually overnight.
But even here the cloud has a silver lining; clearly, Eastern Europe or the former Soviet Union (at least the stable and modernizing regions) are also among the potential offshore locations for a Germany or Japan that is fighting to cut labor costs.
British Chancellor George Osborne has made it clear that he would like the City of London to be the most important offshore market for renminbi trading and services.
These proceeds will then be allocated to developing the country’s non-oil sectors, and invested in offshore assets to offset the inevitable loss in oil revenues.
In its first year of operation, the Forum commissioned five working groups to examine issues affecting international financial stability, including highly leveraged institutions, capital flows and offshore financial centers.
For example, Chinese representatives disbursed almost $2.3 billion to acquire a 45% stake in one of Nigeria’s offshore oil fields and promised to invest an additional $2.25 billion in develop the reserves.
I doubt that other European countries would allow Britain to operate like some offshore center at the edge of Europe, free from Europe’s responsibilities but participating fully in its opportunities.
The region’s economic stature was bolstered in 2003 with the advent of the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline, a $4.2 billion project brokered by the World Bank that is expected to boost exploration and output in Chad and at offshore sites in Equatorial Guinea, while spreading the benefits more widely.
Groundwater confined in deep geological formations and in offshore aquifers may also be tapped.
While Canada’s oil and gas industry regularly tows icebergs to avoid damage to offshore platforms, for the UAE, keeping ice intact over a 10,000-kilometer (6,200-mile) southward journey, which can take up to a year, is no easy feat.
The renminbi has depreciated even more in the offshore market.
Some of this debt is owed to Russian companies’ offshore owners, who will certainly be happy to roll it over.
Such a move is likely to be effective, given the sheer size of Chinese interventions (hundreds of billions of US dollars annually), which could not easily be recycled through offshore banks without exposing the China’s central bank to many other risks.
Yes, trade with China is the largest component of this imbalance, but that largely reflects the complexity of multinational supply chains and the benefits of offshore efficiency solutions.
A disobedient Sultan or tribal chief would be made to comprehend the error of his ways with a few gun ships moored offshore.
Given the persistent visa and border-crossing hurdles, US companies may find it more advantageous to offshore their production and jobs.
Given souring public sentiment, most of the future increase in wind turbines is expected to take place offshore, where there is less opposition, but where costs are much higher.
For the UK, this requires a dramatic increase in wind power, especially offshore.
Contrary to what many think, the cost of both onshore and offshore wind power has not been coming down.
Two years ago, Egypt believed that major discoveries of offshore natural gas would defuse its dangerous youth bomb, the powder keg that fueled the Arab Spring in 2011.
The recent establishment of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone will allow for the emergence of an offshore international financial center that offers real-world training to China’s regulators.
If Russian businesspeople repatriate their offshore accounts, their financial indiscretions will be forgiven and forgotten.
It would then be possible to get offshore financial centers to cooperate by threatening to isolate them.
Other banks, when seeking to provide renminbi to their clients, are limited to bidding for the fixed supplies that circulate offshore.
Thus, even a quota that permits an offshore clearing bank to tap funding in China does not guarantee that it can obtain that funding at a reasonable price.
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